Another 70 new wills have been added with a list of “new” surnames.
Photos of Surnames on Signs/Shops/Vans We need help. As part of our upcoming book on Oxfordshire surnames we want clear images ...
The following surnames were added to the Oxfordshire Surname Interest List – www.oxsil.org.uk – in May. If any of them are ...
This talk was given on 26 July 2021. Oxford University’s Botanic Garden, the oldest in Britain, was founded in July 1621. Jacob Bobart, the ‘German Prince of Plants’, was the first keeper, famed both for his horticultural skill and his eccentricities. Some of the important visitors and events associated with the Garden will also be featured, including Ashmole, apes, aeronauts and ‘Alice’.
This talk was given on 12 July 2021. Your old photographs are valuable assets that should be cared for and preserved. But they should also be seen and appreciated. A good quality photo restoration saves the original by creating a new image and giving the new version pride of place. A restoration should be sympathetic to the original and bring it back to life.
The presentation on 28 June 2021 showcased the use of a large number of datasets made available online by Oxfordshire Libraries for the benefit of library members. These datasets can be used at home by anybody that has an Oxfordshire Library Card and without charge.
The following additions were made to the Oxfordshire Surname Interest List www.oxsil.org.uk If any of them are of interest, please go ...
This talk was given on 14 June 2021. Founded in 1731, The Gentleman’s Magazine was the world’s first magazine, reporting domestic and foreign news, announcing the latest discoveries in science, medicine and technology, reviewing books and recording freak weather, births, marriages and military promotions. Its obituaries of the deceased laid the foundation for the later Dictionary of National Biography and are a major source for the lives and deaths of thousands of 18 th century people.
This talk, given on 24 May 2021, concerns establishing the truth of a WWI friendship between two Wiltshire farmers' sons, and why one's marriage to the sister of the other, led to the unexpected discovery of an 18th Century Grant of Arms, several 18th Century family trees, crested china and a signet ring. Also an 18th Century print of the College of Arms where a family namesake was Richmond Herald. The story of the fortunes of this family of farmers descended from Merchant Mariner adventurers provides a fascinating insight into the 18thC and their descendant families are searched for the linkage that would show why that cache of 18th Century material descended to its present owners.
Anyone lucky enough to trace their ancestry to the 17th century will face undoubted challenges from gaps in parish registers and the upheavals of civil wars. In this talk, given on 10 May 2021, Else Churchill looked at the problems and some of the solutions that will inform genealogy research in this century.
The following surnames were added to the Oxfordshire Surname Interest List – www.oxsil.org.uk – in March. If any of them are ...
by John Lenton; this talk was given on 26 April 2021 with particular reference to using the Wesley Historical Society Library at Oxford Brookes University. A recording is available.
61 new wills have been added, plus one update
The latest OFHS journal is now available online in the Members’ Area. It contains articles on family reconstruction using wills, first names in Oxfordshire families, an enterprising schoolteacher in Idbury and a few mysterious tales as well as plenty of news.
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A review of the talk given by David Annal on Myddelton Street in London on 22 March 2021
The Museum of Oxford is running a series of online talks.
OXSIL additions to the beginning of March 2021
OFHS, its volunteers and contributors, and those who may have given us permission to publish their data, all have rights ...
Railways were one of the largest employers and many companies left a legacy of staff records. In this talk, given on 12 April 2021, Ian Waller examined how those records help piece together the career of a railway worker up to nationalisation in 1948.
The Oxfordshire Family History Society’s Annual General Meeting took place at 7.15pm on Monday 28th June 2021. The meeting will, by agreement of the Charity Commissioners, be held online using Zoom. The meeting will not be open to non-members.
As part of the surname project we have started to publish individual surname reports. They are available to OFHS members only.
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List of individual surname reports available to OFHS members